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Site name Lousey Barrow, St Juliot

Site number 207

Burial codes 4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4085 4091 4094 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4154 4156 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc A round barrow with a ditch. Two central burials, one a parcel of calcined and comminuted bone from a cremation, the other an unburnt and apparently extended body. Around them had been scattered the sherds of two Beakers, one of Middle style and one of Late style. On the circumference of a 3m surrounding circle were five little cists, each of a slate slab supported by rough stones, each empty except for a few small white pebbles and a dark stain of decayed carbonaceous substances. Over the burials was built a substantial cairn sealed by clay capping (a decayed turf layer?). An upper cairn layer was built on this. The clay capping was reveted. A cupped pebble (two opposite hollows) was found in the ditch bottom.

Remains/Period Y4

County Cornwall

Region SW

National grid square SX

X coordinate 134

Y coordinate 932

Bibliographic source Christie 1985

Query

Site name	Lousey Barrow, St Juliot
Site number	207
Burial codes	4005 4009 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4043 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4085 4091 4094 4098 4104 4111 4128 4143 4151 4152 4154 4156 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	A round barrow with a ditch. Two central burials, one a parcel of calcined and comminuted bone from a cremation, the other an unburnt and apparently extended body. Around them had been scattered the sherds of two Beakers, one of Middle style and one of Late style. On the circumference of a 3m surrounding circle were five little cists, each of a slate slab supported by rough stones, each empty except for a few small white pebbles and a dark stain of decayed carbonaceous substances. Over the burials was built a substantial cairn sealed by clay capping (a decayed turf layer?). An upper cairn layer was built on this. The clay capping was reveted. A cupped pebble (two opposite hollows) was found in the ditch bottom.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Cornwall
Region	SW
National grid square	SX
X coordinate	134
Y coordinate	932
Bibliographic source	Christie 1985